Of course these drinks contain alcohol -- which have addictive properties and overtime can be very damaging to your health. 3. Beer. Beer is another one of those beverages that you should be avoiding this summer. Beer contains a large amount alcohol and empty calories. The yeast in beer also creates uric acid. Uric acid is a normal waste product that is found in your blood. Higher levels of uric acid are associated with gout. Beer is also known to create the classic "beer belly syndrome." This syndrome is very similar to metabolic syndrome. This includes abdominal obesity high blood pressure hypertriglyceridemia and insulin resistance. As a result limiting your beer consumption is a great way of controlling your weight and improving your health. 4. Lemonades and Fruit Juices. For many lemonade and fruit juices are a summer staple. However these drinks are packed full of sugar and fall under the category of summer beverages that you should be avoiding this summer.

When making homemade beverages try connecting two bottle caps with a piece of clear tubing and screwing them on to the bottles one bottle will contain the beverage and the other bottle containing vinegar and baking soda the Co2 from the bottle containing vinegar will pass through the tube and goes in the beverage containing bottle. This process carbonates your beverage and this device sells cheap for round about $7. This process makes it extremely impossible for air to go through. Without beverage tubing process your beverage will be tasteless as beverages should contain some "fiziness." Usually most beverages contain carbonated water if you check through the ingredients. You should know that carbonating apple grape pomegranate watermelon and cantaloupe juices. Big companies use other techniques and machines to carbonate their drinks.

Let s take a look at the illustrious history of beverages from the very start. Early History Archaeologists have discovered that alcoholic drinks were the pioneers of the beverages industry. In ancient times all civilizations from Celts to Greeks used alcoholic beverages and kept some record of having consumed them. Historians continue to debate the exact time when alcohol was first used but they agree upon the fact that it has been present throughout history. Middle Ages By the middle ages alcoholic beverages were being consumed by households in large quantities. Monks were the first people who came across wine and beer as they searched for a nutritious drink to serve with their meals these monks would also sell alcoholic beverages to the people.